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From: fwb
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1986 14:07
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1986 14:07
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> This is silly. Broken computers don't give wrong answers. They crash, > or they log soft errors, or they act flaky. It is almost impossible to > imagine a hardware fault that would have no visible effect other than > to make the 'value' (whatever it may be) of the output wrong. Cheap computers without memory parity checking could have a soft memory error which would make a data value wrong without crashing the computer, logging soft errors, or acting flaky. Of course, nobody uses a computer without error detection, do they? Do you disable parity checking on the plug-in memory boards for your PC? ----------------------------------------------------- Frederic W. Brehm (ihnp4!princeton!siemens!fwb) Siemens Research and Technology Laboratories 105 College Road East Princeton, NJ 08540 (609) 734-3336
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!princeton!siemens!fwb From: fwb@siemens.UUCP Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Re: Re: Speed is the one true performanc Message-ID: <33500006@siemens.UUCP> Date: Thu, 6-Nov-86 09:07:00 EST Article-I.D.: siemens.33500006 Posted: Thu Nov 6 09:07:00 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Nov-86 03:51:04 EST References: <3576@utcsri.UUCP> Lines: 18 Nf-ID: #R:utcsri:-357600:siemens:33500006:000:819 Nf-From: siemens!fwb Nov 6 09:07:00 1986